Babs Fitzgerald T1 [Tape One]

Contributors
Interviewer: Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Interviewee: Fitzgerland, Terrence L. "Babs"
Researcher: MacKay, Paul
Audio engineer: MacKay, Paul
Date Recorded
1998-04-29
Date Digitized
2010-07-29
Abstract
This is an interview with Terrence L. "Babs" Fitzgerald of Charlottetown, P.E.I. In this interview Babs talks about Chief Birtwhistle, his ancestry and the Fitzgerald family, the Wiggins side of his family, politics, horses and deliverymen in Charlottetown, his mother's ring and its connection to Admiral Lord Nelson, his mother's work in radio, his father, and joining WWII with his father and their service overseas.
Genre
Interview
Subject (Geographic)
Charlottetown, PE
Italy
Subject (Temporal)
WWII
1928
1805
Rights
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Physical Location
Held by Reg "Dutch" Thompson
Duration
01:03:09
Member of
Dutch Thompson Audio Collection
Model
1 1 Item in Collection
Transcript
***Disclaimer - This interview contains language and subject matter some may find inappropriate.
SIDE A 00:00:04 -- 00:06:28
Discussion about Chief Birtwhistle and a story about Ed Downe and a starting gate; Chief Birtwhistle, chief of police, chewing tobacco, Ed Downe, starting gate, Archie Birtwhistle.

SIDE A 00:06:28 -- 00:14:18
Discussion about his ancestry and the Fitzgerald family; Rowan Fitzgerald, Curate Fitzgerald, judges, St. Paul's Anglican Church, Geoffrey Fitzgerald, Fitzgerald, Irish, Latin, prothonotary, supreme court.

SIDE A 00:14:18 -- 00:18:07
Discussion about his mother's side of the family; Flora Wiggins, Louis Wiggins, Sundays, strong men.

SIDE A 00:18:07 -- 00:20:51
Discussion about politics and his grandfather; politics, Wiggins, Fitzgerald, Conservatives, Tories.

SIDE A 00:20:51 -- 00:24:07
Discussion about horses and deliverymen in Charlottetown; horses, Charlottetown, drays, coal, ice, deliverymen, Drake, iceman, milkman, Bruce Constable.

SIDE A 00:24:07 -- 00:27:18
Discussion about his birth in Charlottetown, his mother's work as a nurse and midwife, and Foster's Dance Hall; nurses, midwives, Charlottetown, Jerry Foster, Foster's Dance Hall, dances, Gerald R. Foster, musicians.

SIDE A 00:27:18 -- 00:30:43
Discussion about his mother's ring and its connection to Admiral Lord Nelson; Flora Hope Wiggins, Flora Hope Fitzgerald, Horatio Nelson Hope, 1805, HMS Victory, Lord Nelson, Horatio Nelson, Admiral Lord Nelson.

SIDE A 00:30:43 -- 00:31:20
Discussion about his mother's work in radio; 1928, radio, radio programs, CFCY, Flora Fitzgerald, Flora Hope Wiggins, Flora Hope Fitzgerald.

SIDE A ends at 00:31:20.
SIDE B 00:31:29 -- 00:35:20
Discussion about his mother and her work in radio; 1928, radio, radio programs, CFCY, Flora Fitzgerald, Flora Hope Wiggins, Flora Hope Fitzgerald.

SIDE B 00:35:20 -- 00:37:31
Discussion about his father, their Buick McLaughlin, and a story about patching the radiator with oatmeal; Buick McLaughlin, electricians.

SIDE B 00:37:31 -- 00:59:17
Discussion about joining WWII with his father and their service overseas; WWII, signalers, signal operators, signal corps, air raids, blitzes, German bombing, barrage balloons, 1st Canadian Corps Signals, 5th District Signals, Geoffrey Fitzgerald, RMS Scythia, Lord Ha Ha, D-Day, Italy.

SIDE B 00:59:17 -- 01:03:09
Discussion about his mother's work in radio continues; CFCY, radio, Helen Herring, Flora Fitzgerald, Flora Hope Wiggins, Flora Hope Fitzgerald, Stewart Dixon, J. Austin Trainor, Betty Large, Ches Walker, Loman McAuley.

Tape ends at 01:03:09.